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Suppafly on Jan 6, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: All clocks are 30 seconds late

The only one that I know of as being an anachronism is saying "quarter of" or similar. At one point people decided that 'of' meant 'to' and after a while we forgot that because it was stupid. People still say quarter past though.

aidenn0 on Jan 6, 2025 [–]

My teenage daughter needs me to explain it to her every time I say either "quarter past" or "quarter to"

Suppafly on Jan 6, 2025 | [–]

past and to are pretty self explanatory if you know English at all.

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